Government Quote by Aristotle

“Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.”

— John Stuart Mill

“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they…

— David Hume

“The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Government is the right disposition of things.”

— Michel Foucault

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly…

— Henry David Thoreau

“If you want to govern the people, You must place yourself below them. If you want to lead people, You must learn how to…

— Lao Tzu

“The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Beware of precise plans by government. Let government predict: it makes them feel better about themselves and justifies their existence.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“We cannot expect the men we appoint to govern us, to be better than ourselves.”

— Stephanie Barron

“Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.”

— Elias Boudinot

“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average…

— W. E. B. Du Bois